Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
Vermilion County, Illinois, has about 71,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Vermilion County Sheriff's Office and 15 city agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the State's Attorney files charges, a case in the Circuit Court of Vermilion County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Vermilion County public records, Illinois arrest records, Illinois inmate search and Illinois criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Vermilion County
The Vermilion County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Vermilion County. It reported 387 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside 15 of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported, the largest twelve first; the rest are named in the cities section below:
- Danville, 27,981 residents: 1,304 arrests reported for 2025.
- Hoopeston, 4,691 residents: 98 arrests reported for 2025.
- Westville, 3,035 residents: 87 arrests reported for 2024.
- Georgetown, 3,001 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2020.
- Tilton, 2,533 residents: 146 arrests reported for 2025.
- Catlin, 1,919 residents: 7 arrests reported for 2025.
- Oakwood, 1,275 residents: 27 arrests reported for 2025.
- Rossville, 1,162 residents: 24 arrests reported for 2025.
- Ridge Farm, 753 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2025.
- Potomac, 656 residents: 5 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fairmount, 589 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fithian, 473 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Vermilion County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Danville: 1,304 for 2025, 1,396 for 2024, 1,272 for 2023, 1,512 for 2022 and 1,191 for 2021.
- Vermilion County Sheriff's Office: 387 for 2025, 481 for 2024, 513 for 2023, 341 for 2022 and 304 for 2021.
- Tilton: 146 for 2025, 91 for 2024, 121 for 2023, 162 for 2022 and 125 for 2021.
- Hoopeston: 98 for 2025, 74 for 2024, 102 for 2023, 81 for 2022 and 190 for 2021.
- Oakwood: 27 for 2025, 23 for 2024, 14 for 2023, 23 for 2022, 22 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Rossville: 24 for 2025, 37 for 2024, 22 for 2023, 4 for 2022, 18 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Henning: 13 for 2025, 3 for 2024, 3 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Catlin: 7 for 2025, 11 for 2024, 5 for 2023, 4 for 2022, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
- Potomac: 5 for 2025, 1 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 0 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Ridge Farm: 2 for 2025, 2 for 2024, 6 for 2023, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 and 2022 are missing months.
- Sidell: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 1 for 2021 and 0 for 2020.
- Fairmount: 0 for 2025, 0 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 2 for 2022, 0 for 2020 and 0 for 2019; 2021 is missing months.
Together, the 14 agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,013 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,013 in 2025 against 2,119 in 2024, down 5 percent.
Through August 2026, the 11 agencies with every month so far on file reported 1,323 arrests, against 1,375 in the same months of 2025.
Westville reported only part of 2025 (11 months) and is left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Vermilion County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Vermilion County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2024 the jail held about 160 people, down from about 210 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 410 beds, and it ran at 51 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Illinois Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at idoc.illinois.gov/offender/inmatesearch.html.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Vermilion County
Illinois is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act, through the Illinois State Police. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Vermilion County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension, and it may charge copying only after the first 50 pages.
- An arrest by the Vermilion County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Danville, Hoopeston, Westville, Georgetown, Tilton, Catlin or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Illinois State Police.
Cities in Vermilion County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for 15 of the 21 cities in Vermilion County: the twelve named above and Sidell, Indianola and Henning. Bismarck, Rankin, Belgium, Allerton, Alvan (Alvin) and Muncie have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Circuit Court of Vermilion County.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in Vermilion County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Danville (27,981)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Vermilion County each year?
Danville reported 1,304 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the 14 agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 2,013 between them.
Where are people arrested in Vermilion County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Vermilion County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Vermilion County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Illinois State Police: conviction information is public under the Uniform Conviction Information Act. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Vermilion County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Vermilion County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 5 business days, with one 5-day extension.
Is this the official Vermilion County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.